Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez is a Mexican computer scientist whose research involves

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and its applications in

system identification The field of system identification uses statistical methods to build mathematical models of dynamical systems from measured data. System identification also includes the optimal design of experiments for efficiently generating informative data f ...

, the problem of reconstructing models of

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s from measurements of their behavior. She is a researcher at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM), in the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas (IIMAS, the ''Institute of Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems'').

Education and career

Rodríguez-Vázquez earned a degree in computer engineering at UNAM in 1994. After working as a researcher in the UNAM faculty of engineering from 1993 to 1995, and teaching physics and mathematics at Colegio Kansas, a Mexican high school, she went to the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

in England for graduate study, beginning in 1995. She completed her doctorate there in 1999, with the dissertation ''Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms in Non-Linear System Identification''. She returned to UNAM as a researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas in 1999.

Selected publications

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Recognition

Rodríguez-Vázquez is a member of the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent foreign coll ...

. UNAM gave her their

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition ( es, Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, links=no) is an award given since 2003 by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It is presented to women of the institution for achievemen ...

in 2014.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodríguez-Vázquez, Katya Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Mexican computer scientists Mexican women computer scientists National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Alumni of the University of Sheffield Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences 21st-century Mexican women scientists